ki.se Methods All patients with ≥5.5 mm thick choroidal melanomas who were treated with plaque brachytherapy at a single institution between 1 November 1979 and 31 December 2015 were included (n=571).

The Breslow thickness describes how deep a melanoma has grown into the layers of skin. Doctors need to know the depth of a melanoma to help stage it. The stage tells you the size of a cancer and if it ...

Despite the highly successful treatment outcomes for achieving local tumor control, long-term survival rates for uveal melanoma and large choroidal melanomas in particular remain dismal because of ...

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Choroidal melanoma is the most common primary intraocular malignant tumor in adults and results in metastatic death in up ...

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There are four treatment approaches for ocular melanoma. This is usually required if the tumor is very large. Outcomes are excellent for tumor control, but the side effect is the loss of the eye. For ...

Your risk of developing melanoma depends on many things. This includes lifestyle factors and some medical conditions. In the UK, too much ultraviolet radiation causes around 85 out of 100 melanomas ...